The gens Aurunculeia was a plebeian family at Rome. None of the members of this gens ever obtained the consulship; the first who obtained the praetorship was Gaius Aurunculeius, in 209 BC.[1]

Origin

The nomen Aurunculeius is probably derived from the name of the Aurunci, a race of people from rural Campania, conquered by the Romans in 314 BC, during the Second Samnite War. The Aurunculei may have been of Auruncan origin, or perhaps less probably, descendants of the colonists sent to the towns of the Aurunci beginning in 313.[2][3]

Branches and cognomina

The only cognomen associated with the Aurunculeii is Cotta.[4]

Members

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita ix. 25, 26
  3. ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1970).
  4. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  5. ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxvii. 6, 7.
  6. ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxvii. 41.
  7. ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, xxxvi. 45, xxxvii. 2, 55.
  8. ^ Polybius, The Histories, xxxiii. 1.

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